Comparisons of uncoupled and various coupling techniques for practical field examples

SPE Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-102

  Samier, Pierre ^a   Onaisi, Atef ^a   Fontaine, Gregory ^b  

^a TOTAL   (France)

^b Total EPNL   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY OF SOLIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FINITE VOLUME METHOD; FLOW PATTERNS; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE EFFECTS; HYDROCARBONS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; POROUS MATERIALS; ROCKS;

COUPLED RESERVOIR-GEOMECHANICAL SIMULATIONS; COUPLING TECHNIQUES; RESERVOIR SIMULATIONS;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

EID: 33645812324     PISSN: 1086055X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2118/79698-PA     Document Type: Article

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